Grounding, Generosity, and Gratitude One of many incredible colleagues December 3, 2024 To Listen to Chad Read This Blog, Click Here Every two years, Solution Tree invites all of the PLC at Work® associates to a weekend retreat for learning, networking, and fellowship. This long weekend re-grounds us all in the work, refreshes and reinvigorates …
The notion that assessment can, and indeed should, inspire hope is explored with highlights from the Assessment Collaborative Conference.
Reflecting back on serving a thousand or more educators in dozens of schools across quite a few states in 2023 – 24, a few lessons come to mind that might be helpful.
One of my favorite phrases from high school Latin is “sine qua non.” It very literally means, “without which there is nothing.” And in education, there is one thing, above all else, that is sine qua non.
At the risk of adding another acronym to our field, consider the following when thinking about your CFA: the FACTS. And just the FACTS, ma’am.
The beauty of the four Critical Questions of a learning team is that they are simple. That doesn’t mean the process is easy, though.
Not wanting to just reflect on the past year, I thought I would share some leadership lessons I’ve recently learned from an unlikely source…
“Don’t do that” were the words out of Rick DuFour’s mouth, more than a decade ago, as I was excitedly and passionately explaining to him how the district I was in was going about our work.
At a fundamental level, continuous improvement means that whatever I do today won’t be as good as tomorrow, or next week, or next month, or in a year or more. Because I’m not perfect…indeed, I’m far from it.
